Insight Type: Research Note

February 17, 2021

Shelly Kramer

Research Note

6G Technology Will Have a Major Impact on Devices, Materials, and Communications — Here’s What’s Ahead

6G technology will have a big impact on devices, the market, and on communications in remote areas and beyond and Futurum’s Shelly Kramer takes a quick look at the market and some of the players. While we’re a ways away from the realities of 6G, it’s exciting to think about what’s ahead. It’s also exciting to see many leaders in Big Tech already making progress and getting involved. Some early industry players in the 6G space include Nokia, who heads project Hexa-X, the European Commission’s flagship 6G research initiative, and Ericsson, who will manage the technical aspects of the program. Other partners (today anyway) include Siemens, Intel, Telefonica, TIM, and Orange. 5G’s all the buzz today, but 6G, that’s going to be a whole different ballgame.

Digital Transformation

February 16, 2021

Ron Westfall

Research Note

Oracle Hybrid Cloud: New Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure Brings Core to the Edge

Oracle’s expansion of its Hybrid Cloud Portfolio, especially through the Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure offering, strengthens its overall competitive standing in the public cloud and ruggedized edge server domains. Oracle counters competitive offerings such as HPE’s Edgeline series as well as the AWS Snow Family, bolstering OCI’s ability to sell more into verticals and environments, such as agriculture, energy, mining, and factories, where conditions can be vigorous and tough and network connectivity is limited or lacking. Here’s what Futurum’s Ron Westfall has to say about the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, the key differentiators it provides, and what this move by Oracle compels its rivals to do moving forward.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

February 11, 2021

Olivier Blanchard

Research Note

Qualcomm’s Upgradable New Snapdragon X65 Modem Promises to Bring 10gbs speeds to 5G phones as Early as this Year

Qualcomm’s upgradable new Snapdragon X65 modem promises to bring 10gbs speeds to 5G phones as early as this year. Next-gen 5G phones with 10 gigabit per second speeds, all-day battery life, and smart AI-optimized mmWave antennas are coming — and quickly. By delivering not only an upgradeable 10gbs 5G modem but complete RF/RFFE solutions optimized to support global sub-6GHz and mmWave bands, Qualcomm manages yet again to give major OEMs a compelling reason to build their premium and flagship 5G devices around Snapdragon modem-RF systems.

5G, AI, Communications Networks

February 10, 2021

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Oracle Announces a Series of Updates to its Cloud CX Offering

This week Oracle announced a series of updates to its CX platform highlighting b2b selling and service opportunities.

CRM, Customer Experience

February 10, 2021

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Segment’s New Report Shows Strong Growth of Customer Data Platforms

Segment released its 2021 CDP report focusing on the momentum and growth of CDP as companies look to do more with their customer data.

February 9, 2021

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Cisco Comes In Just Above Expectations for its Fiscal Q2

Cisco came in with its Q2 numbers flat YoY as the company continues to fight headwinds from the pandemic and supply chain issues.

February 8, 2021

Ron Westfall

Research Note

Ericsson Digital BSS: Make Cloud Deliver on its Promises in BSS Transformation

Accelerating cloud adoption for BSS is essential for communication service providers (CSPs) to attain and maintain profitable services. CSPs can ill-afford to lose their influence across digital value chains and their top priority investments in the 5G-IoT ecosystem. Through cloud, CSPs deliver the virtualized, on-demand service delivery platform to ensure the creation of new, profitable services and sustaining innovation through collaboration with ecosystem partners and developers. In order for CSPs to successfully execute their BSS journey to cloud, regardless of their progress to date, CSPs need to give top consideration to cloud and its role in adapting BSS to COVID-19 exigencies and the post pandemic reality as the world shifts to new business models enabled by 5G and IoT.

Cloud, Communications Networks, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

February 8, 2021

Olivier Blanchard

Research Note

Microsoft’s New Employee Experience Platform, Microsoft Viva, Connects Employee Productivity and Wellness to Smoother Work Experiences

Could Microsoft Viva’s plan to humanize the workplace be the key to boosting employee productivity, creativity, and retention? Seeing technology now being used to re-humanize the workplace, humanize workflows, and give people rather than systems more agency and initiative, seems to Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard to be a very positive and welcome change in the enterprise. Microsoft’s new Viva employee experience platform certainly appears to be aiming to deliver on that vision.

Digital Transformation, Workplace Collaboration

February 8, 2021

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Poly 3rd Quarter Results Reflects Market Buy-In to its Strategy

February 4, 2021

Ron Westfall

Research Note

Oracle Database 21c: Powering Blockchain and AutoML Innovations

Futurum’s Ron Westfall walks us through the Oracle Database 21c debut, which further differentiates the company’s converged database proposition, especially in key emerging technology areas such as Immutable Blockchain Tables and AutoML for In-Database ML. The new offering strengthens Oracle’s ability to bolster developer productivity in cultivating new applications and curating applications to fulfill top-priority business objectives. By including 200+ innovations across seven key technology areas in the new release, Ron is bullish on Oracle and sees this move as putting its major database rivals, such as IBM, SAP, Amazon, and Microsoft/Azure on the sales and marketing defensive in the near-term. He sees Oracle’s Database 21c sales and marketing zigging in marked contrast to the zagging of recent competitor marketing that continues to focus on requisite, somewhat bland feature sets such as cloud-based data management, putting Oracle in the driver’s seat to drive industry-wide converged database sales and marketing conversations at the onset of 2021.